Henry Rollins uses a great food analogy:
Listening to the music you know and love is like carbohydrates, discovering new stuff is the protein(the meat).
Why we listen to new music
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Re: Why we listen to new music
#112Henry Rollins uses a great food analogy: Listening to the music you know and love is like carbohydrates, discovering new stuff is the protein(the meat).
Unless you're doing keto ....
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#113Listening to new music is one of my favourite activities. Don't understand how people are happy to listen to the same old stuff - it must get so dull. There's so much good stuff out there, and it's so exciting to find an artist, genre or new combinations of sounds I've not heard before. Bandcamp is great for this – better than Spotify or Apple Music. You can explore by artist, genre tag, label, and by people who have…
> Don't understand how people are happy to listen to the same old stuff I have a lot of emotional/memory attachments to certain music - it ties in with a lot of specific events in life. Listening to those 'same old stuff' albums/songs can take me back to places when I want to reminisce. I can get some of the same feelings, even smells and tastes sometimes, with the 'same old stuff'. Not all of those are 'old' like de…
I am exactly like this as well. Some days I am just in the mood to listen to 'old' music. Music I listened to growing up. Other days, I crave something new.
I find the same thing with foods as well. When I discover a new dish/restaurant I love, I will have it several times and relish in the new flavors/atmosphere. After a while, I still love and enjoy that dish/restaurant, but now the thrill has been replaced by a more comforting and familiar association with a fun night out.
Another example, growing up, I was only allowed to drink Coke when we ate out or went on picnics, or attended sporting events. As a result, as an adult, my brain made an association between drinking coke and having a good time.
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#115Listening to new music is one of my favourite activities. Don't understand how people are happy to listen to the same old stuff - it must get so dull. There's so much good stuff out there, and it's so exciting to find an artist, genre or new combinations of sounds I've not heard before. Bandcamp is great for this – better than Spotify or Apple Music. You can explore by artist, genre tag, label, and by people who have…
I do both, old stuff and new stuff depending on the mood. Lately I've been exploring some genres I didn't even know existed like medieval speed folk (Perkelt is a group I like) and Dungeon Synth (Fief is my favorite so far).
In a recent thread somebody mentioned the My Analog Journal YouTube channel called and I've found so many great things through there. I had no idea that Japanese funk was a thing until listening to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEXZSzPpZqo
There's definitely still a place for radio-style DJs even if radio is basically dead.
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> Listening to new music is one of my favourite activities Same here. I always get so damn happy when I find a new track that I really like. I've added a weekly reminder to listen to my Spotify account's Discovery Weekly and Release Radar (based on the people you follow) lists, and I always find new tracks; the Your Daily Mix lists are quite awesome, too, in this regard. Additionally, I have quite a few Spotify playl…
A fellow house head! I must ask, are you a fan of any specific house mixes? I find that, while I do love standalone tracks, there's something absolutely ethereal about a well mixed house set, where the tracks are perfectly mixed and organically bleed into each other. On Youtube, I'm a fan of Johnny M's mixes for deep house. I've never heard of BeatportCharts, so I'll definitely check that out, thanks for the recommen…
A few months ago a coworker introduced me to the Cercle channel on YouTube [0]. If you look through their top videos [1] I'm sure you'll find a lot of sets that you like!
My favorite Cercle sets are the following:
- Black Coffee's set: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGqg_ZzThDU
- Adriatique's set: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQZYzGO8QlM
- Christian Löffler's set: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2OCXiubvr0&t=950s
- Solomun's set: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHDRRxKlimY
There's also the Boiler Room sets [1] which are quite famous. One of my favorites is definitely the Boiler Room Palestine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9VYKrtziSg
Finally, RÜFÜS DU SOL played an amazing live set in the desert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy4KtD98S2c ; you might enjoy this one, too!
[0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPKT_csvP72boVX0XrMtagQ
[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPKT_csvP72boVX0XrMtagQ/vid...
Re: Why we listen to new music
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A fellow house head! I must ask, are you a fan of any specific house mixes? I find that, while I do love standalone tracks, there's something absolutely ethereal about a well mixed house set, where the tracks are perfectly mixed and organically bleed into each other. On Youtube, I'm a fan of Johnny M's mixes for deep house. I've never heard of BeatportCharts, so I'll definitely check that out, thanks for the recommen…
Not the person you responded to but this is a nice mix from The Kais on Soundcloud. https://soundcloud.com/thekais/wir-waren-wie-dick-und-doof Totally agree on mixes being great. If you have any specific suggestions in return please feel free to share. I'll check out Johnny M on YouTube.
Soundcloud's great for finding new music, too; I have currently 1842 tracks and mixes that I liked over there.
MixCloud [0] is another source for finding a lot of new electronic music tracks; the absolutely nice thing about MixCloud is that the player shows the track ID at specific timestamps within a mix, so most of the times you don't even have to use Shazam to ID a track :)
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So... you think Aphex Twin is a niche electronic music artist of the 90s and at the same time claim Taylor Swift and Beiber have "almost unparalleled influence". I mean... musical taste has its variations and I am cool with that but this is objectively an exaggeration.
In general, they’re niche. Their peak was in the 90s but they’re not of the 90s, I’m not trying to call them Sugar Ray. This is all in terms of listeners and quantity, not taste and quality, in line with Pitchfork’s target moving. And it’s definitely exaggerated, but mostly because Taylor Swift and Beiber were the slightly dated examples given. Nicely emblematic though.
Aphex Twin is not a "they" and he's probably more prolific on a larger scale now than he ever was.
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#119I grew up with boomer parents (one went to DJ school) who blasted only Beatles and yacht rock, explaining anything made after their youth was not even music. It spawned in me a lifelong curiosity and dedication to new music. I do on rare occasion reflect back, but never to The Who, who was my unfortunate childhood alarm clock and constant soundtrack as I played/gardened outside. (The DJ wired the yard for Who sound).
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> Don't understand how people are happy to listen to the same old stuff - it must get so dull. Only if you listen to dull music. Perhaps pick higher quality stuff? A good portion of my collection was originally written before 1750: Bach, Palestrina, Tallis, etc.† Some CDs I've had for >25 years and they are still as fresh as the first day I listened to them. And even a different take on the same composition can be il…
Nope, you are fully missing out on the advances of music production. The sounds producers can create nowdays were not available in 18th century, not even in the 80s. If you consider as music only what you can write down as sheet music you are missing out on so much. Thats why finding new artists, who can make unique sounds, not just melodies, is so rewarding.
> Nope, you are fully missing out on the advances of music production.
Meh.
I have music from Beethoven, Shostakovich , Dvořák, Orff, and many others in my collection (including the previously mentioned Gorecki and Part--also, Zeppelin).
I prefer Early Music.